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The three age groups of people from Warsaw: children, young adults and elderly people were examined for the prevalence of infection with Pneumocystis jirovecii. Nested PCR was used to amplify fragment of mitochondrial large subunit rRNA of the fungus in samples of oropharyngeal swabs. Nineteen (12.8%) of the 148 examined samples were positive for DNA of P. jirovecii. The samples collected from children...
The aim of the study was to analyse the prevalence of H. pylori infection in adult inhabitants of Lublin Province. The effects of living conditions and lifestyle on the infection frequency were evaluated. The study included 585 adults randomly chosen for the epidemiological analysis of H. pylori infection in the Lublin region within the project commissioned by the Ministry of Health (PCZ 08-09) and...
This is the first investigation of Giardia prevalence in farm animals and in farmers or their family members in Poland. The prevalence of infection was 1.3% in sheep and 2.2% in cattle. Thus, infection rates of livestock in Poland are much lower than those recorded by investigators in other countries. Moreover, we recognized Giardia infection both in human and calf in the same time and place. This...
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